Activities of Barbara KAPPEL related to 2016/2097(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Annual report 2015 on the protection of EU's financial interests - Fight against fraud (debate) DE
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on the Annual Report 2015 on the protection of the EU’s financial interests – Fight against fraud PDF (594 KB) DOC (85 KB)
Amendments (13)
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas the protection of the EU’s financial interests should be a key element of the EU’s policy to increase the confidence of citizens by ensuring that their money is usmanaged properly and according to the ‘best use of every euro’ approach;
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas the diversity of legal and administrative systems in the Member States presents a challenging environment in whichneeds to be adequately coordinated to overcome irregularities and combat fraud;
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas the current VAT systems, in particular as applied to cross-border transactions, isare vulnerable to fraud and tax avoidance strategies, in which MTIC fraud (Missing Trader Intra-Community fraud, commonly called carousel fraud) alone was responsible for VAT revenue losses of approximately 50 billion EUR in 2014;
Amendment 28 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Is alarmedNotes with concern that the number of all fraudulent and non-fraudulent irregularities reported (22 349 cases) increased significantly for a second consecutive year – first by 48 % in 2014 and then by another 36% in 2015, leading to doubling the amount of registered irregularities within just two years; notes that even though the number of irregularities doubled the sum involved in them (EUR 3.21 billion) remains on the same level as in 2014; calls on the Commission to analyse this development;
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Notes that under article 27 (3) of the Council Directive 2010/24/EU concerning mutual assistance for the recovery of claims relating to taxes, duties and other measures, the Commission shall report every 5 years to the European Parliament and to the Council on the operation of the arrangements established by this Directive; deploregrets that the evaluation foreseen for at latest 1st of January 2017 is still unpublished; calls on the Commission to publish the evaluation swiftly;
Amendment 50 #
7. Urges the Member States to recover the amounts of TOR due more quickefficiently, especially those Member States which need to recover the largest amounts; urges Greece, Romania, Latvia, Malta and the Netherlands to improve their collection of TOR, as their rate of TOR due remains significantly above the EU average of 1.71% and is 8.95%, 5.07%, 5.04%, 3.84% and 3.81% respectively;
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Takes good note of the fact that 75% of all cases reported as fraudulent concern goods as tobacco, electrical machinery, footwear, textiles, iron and steel and that China, the UAE, the US, Belarus, Russia and Ukraine are most frequently reported as countries of origin of such goods; stresses that China is the primary originating country (80%) for counterfeit goods, followed by Hong Kong, United Arab Emirates, Turkey and India;
Amendment 72 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Welcomes the Commission action plan on ‘’VAT-Towards a single EU VAT area’’ published on 7 April 2016; deeply rRegrets that the publication of the “Measures to improve cooperation between tax administrations and with customs and law enforcement bodies and to strengthen tax administrations' capacity” foreseen in the action plan for 2016 will be delayed by one year;
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
Amendment 101 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Notes with concern that, despite the numerous calls from Parliament for the establishment of uniform reporting principles in all Member States, the situation remains highly unsatisfactory and there are still significanttriking differences in the number of fraudulent and non-fraudulent irregularities reported by each Member State; reiterates its call to the Commission to make serious efforts to resolve the problem ofcoordinate the differingent approaches by Member States to detecting irregularities, and non-homogeneoustoo divergent interpretations when applying the EU legal framework;
Amendment 125 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31
Paragraph 31
31. Supports the Hercule III programme, which is a good example of “best use of every euro” approach; calls on the Commission to closely monitor the use and effectiveness of grants granted under the Hercule III program;
Amendment 158 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37
Paragraph 37
37. Welcomes breaking the deadlock in the Council regarding the proposal on the Directive on the fight against fraud to the Union’s financial interests by means of criminal law (PIF Directive) with a VAT fraud included in its scope; expresses hope for a swift conclusion of the PIF directive negotiations and looks forward to obtaining an agreement that will be beneficial for the financial interests of the Union;
Amendment 164 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 38
Paragraph 38
38. Recalls Parliament’s resolution on EPPO adopted on 5th of October 2016; believhopes that an efficient EPPO willcould strengthen the fight against fraud in the EU provideand that it is given the necessary legal provisions and is able to work efficiently with other existing EU bodies and to assist Member State authorities;